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    Baylis, Smith and Owens: The Globalization of World Politics 7e

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    Chapter 14: War and world politics

     War is organized violence among political entities, including both states and non-state
    actors.
     War has occurred frequently in history, but changes with context.
     Many kinds of groups can wage war, but in order to do so they have to ‘organize violence’ or
    create an armed force.
     A ‘war and society’ approach to the study of war looks at how war has shaped society and at
    how society has shaped war.
     Strategy is a plan to make the war serve a political purpose, while tactics are the techniques
    that armed forces use to win battles.
     International war is a war fought between two or more sovereign states.
     A civil war is a war fought inside a sovereign state, but which in practice may involve many
    different international actors.
     Wars connect the combatant societies; through war, the parties to the conflict shape one
    another.
     Wars lead to the global circulation of people, goods, and ideas.
     Wars can shape world politics as a whole and have long-lasting consequences.
     Clausewitz developed two trinities to describe the nature of war: a primary one consisting of
    passion, chance and reason, and a second one consisting of political leadership, armed
    forces, and the people.
     Clausewitz divided war into two types: limited war fought for a purpose less than political
    existence, and total war in which existence was at stake.
     Clausewitz made a distinction between ‘real war’, or war as it actually happens, and ‘true
    war’, the inherent tendency of war to escalate.
     War for Clausewitz is a continuation of politics between the combatant societies with the
    addition of other— violent—means.
     Political purposes can both limit and fuel the violence of war.
     Armed force is an important basis for political power, and the types of military technology
    available shape politics.
     Modern states claimed a monopoly of legitimate violence within their territories.
     Nationalism and war had a symbiotic relationship: nationalism motivated many people to go
    to war, while war increased national feeling.
     Since Western states were both sovereign states and empires, their wars had both
    international and global dimensions.
     State-building in Europe meant imperial wars in the non-European world.
     Empires were concerned with internal security and used armies and security forces raised
    from colonized populations.
     Great powers used military assistance to intervene in the global South after decolonization.
     War and society in the global South and North have become interconnected in new ways in
    the war on terror.

    © Oxford University Press, 2017.

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